ACARA goes with Vidyo videoconferencing technology from eVideo

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is the independent authority responsible for the development of a national curriculum, a national assessment program and a national data collection and reporting program that supports 21st century learning for all Australian school students.
ACARA's head office is based in Sydney and work is carried out in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, including teachers, principals, governments, State and Territory education authorities, professional education associations, community groups and the general public.
For ACARA the ability to communicate extensively and efficiently across a wide distributed work force is crucial. Frequent travel for national data collection and reporting programs is required, which is a costly and time consuming challenge with such a large group of stakeholders.
In combination with national travel, ACARA used a monthly web based video conferencing subscription, which soon proved to be a costly service with limited interoperability between other video conferencing systems.
With communication on a weekly basis, ACARA needed a video conferencing solution that would reduce the need for travel, lower costs and have the ability to communicate with other standards based systems. With ACARA’s continues growth they required a scalable solution for potential to expand and a mobile / android video solution for their mobile workers.